KIDS DRUG EDUCATION/PREVENTION

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How can parents hope to keep kids off drugs? "Monitoring is the key factor," said Grace M Barnes, Phd., a senior research scientist at RIA. "monitoring means knowing where your kids are, who their friends are, when they are coming in, and so on. We found that it's important for all adolescents and especially for the older kids. Parents might think that when the kids get older they don't need as much supervision but they do(20 ). Another study showed, attempting to control teenagers through psychical discipline not effective(21 ).

The General Accounting Office said about drug abstinence only programs "There is no evidence that the no use approach is more successful than alternative approaches, or even successful in its own right."(22 ).

Responsible alcohol use programs are more successful than abstinence only programs (23 ).

When we develop prevention programs, they should be based on scientific evidence and not a political Ideology (24 ).